Funny, usually the only real practical use for a job title is to include it on a business card and in most cases I've been the one who chose what to use. Whether it's Perl Developer, Perl Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Sr. Software Engineer, Sr. Software Hacker or whatever you're called by others the choice is pretty much whatever you feel comfortable with.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:42 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott.cilley@twistedevolution.net" target="_blank">scott.cilley@twistedevolution.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 2012-10-27 10:13, Joshua ben Jore wrote:<br>
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Most places I know just call this sort of beast a "Software Engineer."<br>
Amazon will stuff it up a bit with "Software Development Engineer."<br>
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Josh<br>
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Tyler Hardison <<a href="mailto:tyler@seraph-net.net" target="_blank">tyler@seraph-net.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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So I'm trying to get a poll of what people's titles are. Particularly<br>
if they're primarily working in Perl, SQL, Web, and engineering?<br>
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Even more helpful if you're forced to work in other languages such as<br>
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Here in the Army they are known as Software Engineers although the Army refuses to use Linux.<br>
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-- S<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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those out of the evil empireŽ.<br>
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Mainly I guess I'm trying to define what I do in an all encompassing title:<br>
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Linux SysAdmin (Only as needed for setting up dev environments)<br>
Can compile Perl from scratch as needed.<br>
Understands threads.<br>
Uses Moose.<br>
Can whip up a Dancer app front-ended by nginx for SSL.<br>
Can debug a .NET app if I'm help at gunpoint.<br>
Can take a spec from a customer and wow them.<br>
Understands Agile.<br>
etc.<br>
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--t<br>
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